Stepping Out - the Musical
Thorndike Theatre, Leatherhead - 20 November, 1996 - 14 December, 1996
Albery Theatre, London - 28 October, 1997 - 28 February. 1998
John Golden Theatre, Broadway, New York - Opened 11th January, 1987; closed 15th March, 1987 (29 previews, 72 performances)
Music by Denis King; Lyrics by Mary Stewart-David; Book by Richard Harris (based on the original play by Richard Harris). Revised as One Night a Week
Stepping Out, which enjoyed a hugely successful West End run and won Evening Standard Best Comedy Award for 1984, is a warm and very funny play about the lives of a group of women (and one man) attending a weekly tap-dance class in a dingy North London church hall. As the play progresses, the class's dancing improves to such an extent that by the climax, a grand charity show performance, they have been transformed into triumphant tappers, worthy of any chorus line. The musical version lifts the story to a new dimension.
Musical Numbers:
- One Night a Week - Mavis & Company
- Quite - Andy & Geoffrey
- Don't Ask Me - Rose & Company
- Love To - Dorothy & Lynne
- What Do Men Think? - Sylvia, Maxine, Rose, Dorothy
- Too Much - Mavis
- Never Feel the Same Again - Andy & Geoffrey
- Definitely You - Vera & Company
- One Night a Week (Reprise) - Company
- Not Quite - Geoffrey
- Just the Same - Maxine
- What I Want - Rose, Sylvia, Maxine, & Dorothy
- Once More - Maxine and Mavis
- Loving Him - Rose, Mavis, Andy & Vera
- Stepping Out - Company
Discography:
Original London Cast Recording - First Night Scene CD24